01897nas a2200229   4500008004100000022001400041245012500055210006900180260001000249520120600259653001701465653001301482653001101495653000801506653000801514653001801522653001001540100002201550700002301572700002401595856004801619       2010                        eng d  a1567-976400aMulticriteria Decision Aid to support Multilateral Environmental Agreements in assessing international forestry projects0 aMulticriteria Decision Aid to support Multilateral Environmental  cApril3 aAbstract&nbsp;&nbsp;The three Rio Conventions—the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Convention on Biological Diversity, and the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification—face the challenge to create synergies at different levels. The objective of this article is to describe how we have assessed synergies between the Rio Conventions at the project level in the forest sector. Since the complexity of the decision problem is high, we adopted the Multicriteria Decision Aid approach, which can provide a broad insight into the decision problem and find a compromise solution to a problem with multidimensional and conflicting criteria including social, economic and environmental features. The ELECTRE TRI model was used for assessing synergies at the project level, and has been a useful tool to quantify the performance of afforestation and reforestation projects into three categories (synergistic, reasonably synergistic, and not synergistic). For the first time, afforestation and reforestation projects have been assessed in a comprehensive way through decision criteria that reflect global and local interests using a non-compensatory multicriteria method.10aconservation10adecision10aforest10aiyf10amea10areforestation10atools1 aCóndor, Roc\'ıo1 aScarelli, Antonino1 aValentini, Riccardo  uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10784-010-9125-7